Failed colonoscopy/gastroscopy - repeating this week with Sedation
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Hi,
I'm new here.
I’ve been seeing a liver doctor to I had a failed one in Feb so going back at the end of the month but the follow up appt isn’t until august! My appt is on Wednesday. Sadly and very frustratingly it was a complete disaster. The throat spray was absolutely disgusting and left me feeling like I was dribbling everywhere. I totally gagged when they put the camera tube down and couldn’t swallow it and couldn’t breath and panicked. This kept happening and each time it was worse. They tried twice and I was panicking and hyperventilating, I couldn’t help it. I tried so hard to concentrate on something else and to breathe but instinct just took over and I couldn’t help reacting like I did - it felt like I was being attacked. I was crying and shaking.
So I’ll be having sedation this time round on Wednesday, at Hammersmith hospital. I’ve had sedation for a colonoscopy before but it didn’t have any effect - I felt every bit of that test. I’m really worried that it will be the same for the endoscopy and it won’t make any difference and it will be like last time. Can you ask for more/stronger sedation? Has anyone been through this? I know from a bit of reading that some people aren’t even aware of it happening and others don’t notice much. I’m scared to be honest, that it will be just as awful as last time which really was one of the scariest things I’ve done in my life even if it was over relatively quickly. Any helpful thoughts and comments welcome.
x
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Tom_Peters
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Tinkerbell32
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babs49935
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jenifer6
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the 2nd, without sedation, terrible gagging, but over very quickly.
miriam_d
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I’m going to give them a ring in the morning and ask to speak to one of the doc’s or nurses if possible to find out a bit more about the sedation and how they do it at Hammersmith.
Thanks everyone - I’ll let you know what they say and how it goes on Wednesday, I wish I could just have it done as a general but I suspect they won’t consider that unless the one with sedation fails…
babs49935
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miriam_d
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derek76
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After it I felt quite alert but when getting off the bed after having a ham sandwich and a cup of tea my legs were like that of a drunk and I staggered around. Even standing I was swaying. Porter pushed me to the exit and we got a taxi home. I had soup and bread. The staggering did not wear off so I thought that I would lie down at 4.45 for an hour before dinner. I waken up and look at the clock and see that it is 11.45. I got up had something to eat and used the computer and read for a while before going back to bed at 2.30 not expecting to sleep.
I slept until 8.45 and still felt unsteady on my legs. That did not happen last time I had sedation for cardioversion. Dr Google tells me that the effect can last for 40 hours. It was well into Sunday before I was walking in a straight line and felt safe to go out.
They did not warn me of the effect except to say not to drive or operate machinery.
jenifer6
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or had anal leakage after the procedure?
the day after my colonoscopy, I went out for lunch, and it all turned into leakage.